How To Use Prehistoric In A Sentence

Prehistoric rubbish heaps produced by the strandlopers are found in a number of caves and tell a great deal about the San people's lifestyle.
As Christians who reject evolutionary theory, the family scoffed at the park's dinosaur attractions, which date the apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the like to prehistoric times.
There can be few museums in the world whose range of exhibits includes a stuffed, 5ft-long, prehistoric fish and a pair of unworn, extremely expensive, blue cowboy-boots.
The Jet Ranger arced upwards, a big prehistoric pterodactyl lurching blindly in its death throes.
Archaeologists attribute the ruin to a flourishing prehistoric kingdom.

The road has been an important trade route since prehistoric times.
It's all about empathy - picturing yourself as the mighty prehistoric beast. The Sun
Liphschitz N (1986) The vegetational landscape and the macroclimate of Israel during prehistoric and protohistoric periods. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
A set of prehistoric footprints, said to show meat-eating dinosaurs hunting vegetarian dinos, has just been recreated in a detailed 3-D model.
Frazer writes about the ceremonial king of so many prehistoric agricultural societies.
The plotline is pleasantly, pulpily thin: college kids invade a sun-and-sex spring break spot, a volcanic eruption unleashes a swarm of flesh-eating prehistoric piranhas. Jessica Szohr Reveals Why She ‘Freaked Out’ While Filming ‘Piranha 3-D’ » MTV Movies Blog
The potent datura fruit has been used in sacred rites since prehistoric times. The Fruit Hunters
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Have you considered actually setting a novel back in prehistoric times? An Interview with Greg Bear for Darwin's Children
Overlooking Hollybush to the north is a huge prehistoric earthwork, no doubt associated with the more complex one on the Herefordshire Beacon, but largely enclosed by thick, hanging woods. Country diary: Malvern Hills
Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Page 7
in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans
Mitchell had through the dinosaur connected the world of the prehistoric to that of the posthistoric or postmodern. The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur
So for example, where we found the buried hulk of the Gold Rush storeship General Harrison, or when we encounter a prehistoric site with human burials, like CA-SFR-114, there's no doubt that the client is going to curse the day he ever met me. Digging San Francisco
Two brachiosauri with a Christ complex walk across a prehistoric lake mural on the side of the building.
The fish that had prompted me to take leave of my senses is an evil-tempered, prehistoric critter that lives only in certain big, cold, fast rivers in Mongolia and Siberia, most of which flow into the Arctic Ocean. Bill Heavey Chases Mongolian Taimen (with Prairie Dogs as Bait)
“The Arab al-Arabá” (or al — Aribah, or al-Urubíyat) are the autochthones, prehistoric, proto-historic and extinct tribes; for instance, a few of the Adites who being at Meccah escaped the destruction of their wicked nation, but mingled with other classes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He jets to Bruce Springsteen concerts, has several luxury cars and collects fossils in prehistoric amber.
Most of the prehistoric monuments that have come down to us served ritual or symbolic purposes, rather than utilitarian ones. Times, Sunday Times
Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue. The Times Literary Supplement
Pictographs also are fragile, since prehistoric artisans do not appear to have used any fixative, such as animal fat, in their pigments.
Raunds lies between prehistoric sites already famous to prehistorians.
The Holy Grail of potholing is believed to lie in a remote area of China where prehistoric caves are thought to be almost twice as deep as any previously explored.
Prehistoric extinctions of Pacific island birds: biodiversity meets zooarchaeology. Marquesas tropical moist forests
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
Fish evolved from prehistoric sea creatures.
Because, honestly, the real world we live in and which has preceded us historically (and prehistorically as far as that goes) is far more complex than what we can get across on the page or "invent. "An Accurate Understanding": Talking About Social Structures in Worldbuilding
[2] "Almost prehistoric" was the verdict of the distinguished film editor Ralph Rosenblum, who worked on The Producers and has reminisced none too flatteringly about his sole collaboration with Brooks, whom he characterizes as a bullheaded amateur who had no idea how to use the resources of the camera to create humor. Double Take
These uplands preserve some astonishing Roman and prehistoric remains.
I believe that early hominids were telling that joke in prehistoric times. Palin takes a shot at Kerry's face
Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous prehistoric monument in the world. Times, Sunday Times
Two later prehistoric hillforts stand on the edge of a steep slope with magnificent views westwards.
There is an overwhelming predominance of female images in prehistoric art.
Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings.
Particularly significant are the jet, amber and quartz items, valued as mortuary goods from prehistoric times onwards for their electrostatic and refractive properties.
Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Page 7
Along the way are some of the oldest known prehistoric sites and temples. Times, Sunday Times
The resulting animal bore a close physical resemblance to its prehistoric ancestor with a temper to match its fearsome reputation. Times, Sunday Times
Had the road engineers of Legio II Augusta cut through the dyke, or were they following a prehistoric ridgeway, having passed through an existing entrance in the dyke?
Once the producers felt we had seen enough of that, the camera seemlessly segued into another grassy scene: one with prehistoric, upright, hairy Homo habilis digging holes and groping for food, circa two million years ago.
The terraced square of rough stone blocks follows the terrain, suggesting an odd reminiscence of prehistoric megaliths.
The richest source of all for prehistoric artefacts has been the Thames.
The prehistoric monster had come from some deep pool below the river.
Analysis has shown that the avenue was heavily trampled by prehistoric feet, and archaeologists have unearthed numerous finds along its edge.
Just as in the mythic prehistoric stage of many nations there is a body of legendary matter, which often reappears in somewhat different form, so there is a floating plankton-like mass of tradition and storiology that seems to attach to eminence wherever it emerges and is repeated over and over again, concerning the youth of men who later achieve distinction, which biographers often incorporate and attach to the time, place, and person of their heroes. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
On Sept. 10, 1994, a New South Wales naturalist named David Noble abseiled into one of the more than 500 canyons in Wollemi National Park -- some 60 miles east of the megalopolis of Sydney -- and discovered a stand of prehistoric coniferous Wollemi pines, representing the 110-million-year-old supercontinent of Gondwanaland. Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur
With its prehistoric burial mounds, barrows and encampments, its feudal laws and time-trapped settlements, the New Forest is anything but dull.
A few passages of Irish heroic poetry that survive from the prehistoric period employ an alliterative line very much like the one used by Old English poets.
The cave contained evidences of prehistoric settlement.
The museum's collection includes artefacts dating back to prehistoric times.
Communal feasting practices in Cyprus have a long pedigree, possibly stretching back into the Chalcolithic period, but were certainly established by the prehistoric Bronze Age.
Curiously, they all carry (wear, pet, hug) rocks on strings like prehistoric necklaces - a metaphor, perhaps, for survival in a flinty world of not very much.
While many people think these prehistoric monsters are mythical creatures, they could really exist. The Sun
We now know the quipu for just what it was in prehistoric times… simply an instrument for recording numbers.
The fresh garlic looks prehistoric and nothing like its plastic jugged cousins of pre-peeled bulbs available at Costco. Carolyn Ossorio: Chewing the Fat With Chef Tom Douglas
The road has been an important trade route since prehistoric times.
It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths, huts and graves.
We learned (more about) and actually tried our hand at scientific illustration, saw fossils and the prehistoric invertebrates that are believed to have been predators, and discussed with a fossil comparer how her degree in art led (or didn't) to her career at the Field. Archive 2006-03-01
The idea that there was a time when a woman was not allowed to buy anything on hire purchase without a man's signature now seems almost prehistoric. Times, Sunday Times
This new study builds on that work by identifying or confirming a raft of genes we inherited from our prehistoric relations. Times, Sunday Times
More impressive still is an eagle in flight, when its utter immensity seems almost prehistoric.
In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns.
Prehistoric finds are to be found in the same building, in the Musée d' Histoire Naturelle et de Préhistoire, notably several statue-menhirs from the Chalcolithic period.
Why then, did prehistoric humanity expend such time and energy predicting them? Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
The prehistoric society in China entered the chiefdom stage during the Huangdi period and became to form a chiefdom alliance.
And then, with the help of five teachers, he unrolls all 15 feet and 238 pounds of his grand finale: a prehistorically huge yellow python named Banana Boy's Brother. Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination
Eventually a few sticks of dynamite are employed to rid the backwoods of a lumbering odiferous fiend from the Prehistoric era.
Dawn of the Dinosaurs" is just a title yes … but if it's going to be even the slightest bit prehistorically accurate the dinosaurs would have to be on their way out in the movie … not on their way in. Worth Watching - April 7: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Teaser Trailer « FirstShowing.net
In the Italic branch, Italian stella and French étoile stem from Latin stēlla.xx And from an eastern branch there is the living Persian word sitarih, descended from the prehistoric Iranian *stăr-. The English Is Coming!
Desmond Bonney followed his initial research by an examination of parish boundaries associated with Roman roads and late prehistoric linear earthworks.
As Christians who reject evolutionary theory, the family scoffed at the park's dinosaur attractions, which date the apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the like to prehistoric times.
I also used my first nautiloid model sculpting time a bit more than a half hour, painting time with water colours many frustrating hours... to make some photos of a prehistoric underwater diorama by photographing in front of a page from a book about the prehistoric seas: Color Underwater
And my hero, Werner Herzog, is using 3-D to film prehistoric cave paintings in France, to better show off the concavities of the ancient caves. Why I Hate 3-D (And You Should Too)
This is a landlocked salt-water lake that was cut off when the surrounding reef rose up in prehistoric times.
Among these large animals was the prehistoric forerunner of all domestic humpless cattle: the aurochs.
Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings
Several megatheriums and other rare species of the prehistoric era lived on this island.
Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous prehistoric monument in the world. Times, Sunday Times
The remains from prehistoric times show that the country was inhabited when the present Hungarian lowlands were covered by the ocean.
The woman cranks away vainly at a machine that looks prehistoric but the man thinks faster.
Some of the many points of interest include early features such as burial mounds, stone circles and cairns that mark areas of prehistoric cultivation.
The nut borne by the beautiful almond tree, Prunus amygdalus, is delicately flavoured and highly versatile, has been cultivated since prehistoric times, and is the most important nut in commerce.
A thundering, prehistoric steam engine cleaves the crowd, whistle screaming, a velvet column billowing into the dark.
Ubelaker has associated such joint modifications in the remains of prehistoric Ecuadorian women with corn-grinding using a two-handed mano and slab metate.
Despite these limitations, the melanosome discoveries appear to mark the dawn of a new era for understanding the role of color in prehistoric worlds. National Geographic News
The plotline is pleasantly, pulpily thin: college kids invade a sun-and-sex spring break spot, a volcanic eruption unleashes a swarm of flesh-eating prehistoric piranhas. Jessica Szohr Reveals Why She ‘Freaked Out’ While Filming ‘Piranha 3-D’ » MTV Movies Blog
Iron is one of the most widely distributed of metals and has been used in ornamental work since prehistoric times.
'prehistoric' site at Tell el-Ma'abed or Tell el-'Obeid near Ur. It seems that these antiquities date from the very end of the neolithic, or rather to the succeeding 'chalcolithic', age; whether they are really prehistoric, as regards Babylonian history, must until more evidence from stratified deposits is found remain undecided. How to Observe in Archaeology
Other finds at the Agate Fossil Beds include the remains of the chalicothere Moropus, the camel Stenomylus, the prehistoric beaver Paleocastor, and the bear-dog Daphoenodon.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 10: 37 PM moi aussi je me demande comment ce linge va resister au mistral! and: is that really prehistoric skull a droite sur la pile de tuile? Corvee - French Word-A-Day
Numberless mementos are in existence that tell of the intellectual activities of prehistoric man; such mementos as flint implements, pieces of pottery, and fragments of bone, inscribed with pictures that may fairly be spoken of as works of art; but so long as no written word accompanies these records, so long as no name of king or scribe comes down to us, we feel that these records belong to the domain of archæology rather than to that of history. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
The universality of the mouse fear roves its prehistoric origin, showing how consistently and successfully women have been educating men in heroism; in earliest times it probably required a whole dinotherium ramping at the cave-mouth to induce primitive man to draw weapon in his mate's defense, but now to evoke the quintessence of chivalry, all a woman has to do is to hop on a chair at sight of a mouse. The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers
However, the famous Lascaux caves with their prehistoric paintings are closed to the general public, although there is a visitor center nearby and replica caves with copies of the paintings, called Lascaux II. The Seattle Times
Ascent and decline of monodactyl equids: A case for prehistoric overkill. Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
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Our understanding of the physical anthropology and ethnobotany of this prehistoric people has increased considerably in the past several decades.
Peter reports on what could turn out to be significant prehistoric remains revealed by a forest fire near the south coast of France, in the Languedoc
Indian pottery spans the prehistoric age to the present day.
Like some prehistoric hunter, you imagine yourself triumphantly standing in the midst of your now disemboweled prey.
Iron has been used in the British Isles since the prehistoric Iron Age.
Hundreds of prehistoric insects and other creatures have been discovered in a large haul of amber excavated from a coalmine in western India. Prehistoric creatures discovered in huge Indian amber haul
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
Barrowvians, _i. e._ a grotesque kind of phantasm that frequents places where prehistoric man or beast has been interred; Planetians, The Sorcery Club
Even a book he assiduously promoted on prehistoric archaeology sold in hundreds of thousands.
This was done about half a century since, but the kistvaen that was found only contained some prehistoric ashes, of far earlier date than Geraint; the gold boat and silver oars were not visible. The Cornwall Coast
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently living at great depths with the hagfish, the prehistoric ratfish was recently discovered off Brazil by scientists.
Commentary from 1861 to the present is examined in order to establish that the avunculate does indeed reflect matrilineal kinship structure, which in turn suggests that a full-scale totemic kinship system prevailed in prehistoric Germania.
His survey of 40,000 years of symbolic imagery and ornamentation of preagricultural peoples describes the enormous diversity and distinctive features of prehistoric art from six continents. Books: Art by Any Other Name
Gordon Childe in the early part of the twentieth century, although the term Neolithic meaning “New Stone Age” was first used by the British antiquarian Sir John Lubbock in his 1865 book Prehistoric Times, one of the first works to bring archaeology to the general public. The Goddess and the Bull
These were not only a record of all the prehistoric and Roman sites for which Dorset is famed. Times, Sunday Times
During a jolly visit to the island, Johnson and Boswell danced a reel on the flat top of Dun Caan and discovered a prehistoric souterrain near Raasay House.
The ancient Maya were imagined as a prehistoric, mysterious, ritualistic cult, ineluctably estranged from European historical and philosophical systems.
They will sit on the pass that day next to the Szechuan buttons and the marinating fish livers and the prehistorically large cardoons, an incongruous jolt of home. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
The finds suggest that the massive dromedary - or single-humped camel - was hunted by prehistoric people, the researchers add.
But no one since has taken on the formidable task of shaping a historical narrative out of the abundant prehistoric data now available for the Mediterranean. The Times Literary Supplement
There was a whiff of that artificial, condescending little-ladyism that is sort of like the cockroach and the spiky horsetail plant, those life forms that have defied the odds and survived intact since remotest prehistoric times, while seemingly hardier creatures were going extinct right and left. Did She Take The Hill?
Desmond Bonney followed his initial research by an examination of parish boundaries associated with Roman roads and late prehistoric linear earthworks.
I wonder if the prehistoric monster is somehow symbolic. Times, Sunday Times
The sauropods include many of the best known prehistoric animals, such as diplodocus and apatosaurus – the dinosaur formerly known as brontosaurus. Dinosaurs with long necks were like 1950s vacuum cleaners, say scientists
In the pre-dawn light the mist over the water parting briefly to offer a tiny glimpse of some prehistoric monster.
That nutcrackers existed in prehistoric times makes sense: nuts were presumably just as nutritious then - and as maddeningly hard to break open without tools - as they are now.
In the late prehistoric period, pine woodland was extensive in the Scottish Highlands and the west of Ireland.
Even more remarkable than the evidence of prehistoric man was the discovery of thousands of fossilised animal bones.
Prehistoric art shows magical rites which supposedly ensured successful hunting.
Out of 94 species of native land birds, 35 were exterminated prehistorically and 8 more have become extinct in the historical period; thus 46% of the original bird fauna is now extinct.
Some may be prehistoric in origin, but most are more recent, some being occupied as houses until the 1950s - apparently the last troglodyte dwellings in this country.
Well, although we associate the boomerang with Australian Aborigines, many cultures used boomerang-like equipment in prehistoric times.
This giant Neolithic tumulus near Avebury, the largest man-made prehistoric mound in Europe, has been a source of observation, speculation and wishful thinking for hundreds if not thousands of years.
A team of archaeologists from Sheffield University have revealed significant new insights into the role of Stonehenge after discovering a prehistoric ceremonial road.
Archaeologists have identified one of Britain's largest prehistoric hill forts in the North Yorkshire Moors.
I also discovered what a kistvaen is by the simple process of falling into one (a burial hole ill-covered by a cracked and unbalanced slab of stone), and we met a herd of immensely shaggy, long-horned highland cattle, looking very much like prehistoric creatures recently risen from some weed-grown swamp. The Moor
It appears to be a throwback to prehistoric times that it has somehow managed to survive.
Our prehistoric ancestors got high only to take part in religious rituals such as burials. The Sun
The prehistoric root flourished in many Indo-European languages, mainly carrying ideas to do with “cooking” and “ripening,” as seen in numerous words that English has borrowed: cook, cuisine, kitchen, kiln, terra cotta, and even precocious, as in “pre-ripened,” or “mature ahead of time.” The English Is Coming!
They are the oldest of old hat: ancient hat, prehistoric hat.
There is evidence that the descendants of Native Americans in prehistoric times used beads as adornment in jewelry as well as a way to trade.
A rare ritual burial of four horses has been discovered in an area experts regard as a sacred landscape surrounding one of the most important prehistoric sites in the North of England.
With prehistoric remains dating from the Paleolithic Age, Alicante has been an Iberian town, a bimillenary Roman municipality, an Arab medina, a medieval Christian town, a city since 1490, a busy commercial port and a city always open to progress.
Was this a prehistoric promontory fort, as traces might indicate?
This is why the La Brea tar pits exist and have existed since prehistoric times – the tar is seepage from a vast subduction zone. Think Progress » Bush Official Dan Bartlett Admits Authorizing Offshore Oil Drilling Will Be Unlikely To Win Over Any GOP Votes
Above the town, where the cemetery now stands, is a likely site for a citadel, and on examining it from the sea I noticed, sure enough, a few blocks of prehistoric structure of the so-called Cyclopean type underneath a corner of the cemetery wall. Alone
Courses on offer from this year include prehistoric archeology, aerospace engineering and business management with informatics. Times, Sunday Times
Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him.
my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes
Skara Brae is a well-preserved prehistoric village, Maes Howe the best of a series of impressive prehistoric burial cairns, and numerous brochs and settlements attest to the islands' Pictish and Viking periods.
They've been preserved by the collapse of the rockface above the cave, closing off what had been the prime canvas for the prehistoric artists and the cave bears and other animals that either preceded or succeeded them. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
With the death of the suburbs and the farms had come a reversion to an almost prehistoric tranquillity in the Sacramento Valley.
A massive prehistoric underground bunker - or souterrain - has been excavated near Dundee.
As the threat of a Cold War recedes, they unleash their tanks and firepower on prehistoric burial mounds.
COULD graffiti scrawled in a rented house in the 1970s be as important as prehistoric cave paintings? The Sun
totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric
Their culture is of prehistoric origin and precedes the arrival of Hinduism to Bali.
Had it been lost overboard during a prehistoric fishing expedition? BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
One of the team is killed in a battle to save the planet from an army of terrifying prehistoric beasts! The Sun
Tatar, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, or Polynesian sailors who drifted, intentionally or accidentally, to the Pacific coast in some unrecorded and prehistoric past, and from whom the men we call our aborigines probably are descended, sent back to Asia no tidings of what they had found. Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682
Among sites recorded are a possible prehistoric earthwork enclosure and industrial remains.
In eight groups of rockfalls more than 75,000 years old, broken speleothems are the only record of the prehistoric seismicity.
I choose instead a flat six-mile track traversing Licuala State Forest Park, where the giant fan palms and prehistoric cycad trees start a few feet from the parking lot.
According to a report in National Geographic News, bones of the prehistoric reptile, known as a plesiosaur, were found in Japan in 1968. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
He was a ghost I carried around inside me, a prehistoric figment, a thing that was no longer real.
The workmen appear to have unearthed a section of root from a plant which grew in the prehistoric equivalent of the mangrove swamps found today around the Amazon or Northern Australia.
Alice discovers the remarkable detail that these imprints reveal about the people and about the strange prehistoric animals that were living on the coast 5,000 years ago.
And the attention-grabbing word news, from a prehistoric root meaning simply “now,” found its Global English stride in more terrestrial circumstances. The English Is Coming!
The plant is native to C. or S. America, where it has been in use since prehistoric times, and is the only member of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, which provides food.
Some of the most famous prehistoric cave-paintings in the world are at Lascaux, which is in which country? The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
But if you do, don't be surprised if you end up on the lunch menu on an island crawling with massive prehistoric creatures. Christianity Today
This ethnographical museum (ethnography being the study of a particular society and culture) contains many prehistoric and historic instruments and textiles.
The mountains themselves appeared the spiny backbones or monstrous prehistoric behemoths that were buried in thousands of layers of earth, and trying in vain to free themselves.
Prehistoric snake gobbled-up dinosaur babies: A fossilized snake has been discovered inside a titanosaur nest in India, leading researchers to conclude that the snake fed on newly-hatched dinosaur babies, rather than their eggs like modern snakes. Archive 2010-02-28
As Christians who reject evolutionary theory, the family scoffed at the park's dinosaur attractions, which date the apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the like to prehistoric times.
Ammonites were creatures with flat shells that had a regular, helically-spiraled shape, that existed on Earth in prehistoric times, having evolved from nautiluses. Ammonite Fossil Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
The line is being described as melding “sci-fi with the prehistoric.” BWE Exclusive: A Graphic Interview With Paul Pope | Best Week Ever
Estimates of "prehistoric" and early historic diamond production suggest that 50 to 100,000 carats per year were found, mostly in alluvial deposits in river gravels. The Ekati Diamond Mine - Success in Canada's North
The sauropods include many of the best known prehistoric animals, such as diplodocus and apatosaurus – the dinosaur formerly known as brontosaurus. Dinosaurs with long necks were like 1950s vacuum cleaners, say scientists
Our most famous prehistoric monument isn't included, and quite right too. Times, Sunday Times
Archaeologists have identified one of Britain's largest prehistoric hill forts in the North Yorkshire Moors.
Derived from the prehistoric deposits of marine creatures, greensand is good for loosening-up compacted soils.
B-movie insanity in which the Californian coast is terrorised by two prehistoric sea creatures. Times, Sunday Times
Ceylon, of the remains of what may correctly be termed stupendous works; and the date of the construction of which, as regards India, is in many cases prehistoric. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
That's part of a longtime mystery that may soon be solved: How did a prehistoric, egalitarian people called the Hohokam produce large quantities of decorated ceramic vessels without a "manager" hierarchy? PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Skara Brae is a well-preserved prehistoric village, Maes Howe the best of a series of impressive prehistoric burial cairns, and numerous brochs and settlements attest to the islands' Pictish and Viking periods.
Our knowledge of the vessels in use in the prehistoric period is still uncomfortably slight.
Cross 13 miles of perilous prehistoric terrain , smashing the classic foes you've come to love and hate with Bonk 's indestructible cranium .
A prehistoric bear shaman figurine was recovered from Ohio Hopewell mortuary contexts at Newark, Licking County, Ohio.
From the appearance of the camps, and the age of the islander who took part in the various searches, and who was ready to admit that though pearl-shell hooks were used when he was a piccaninny he had never seen one made, I judge the age of these relics of a prehistoric art to be between thirty and forty years. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
The only indication of age was the mention of ‘numerous small sherds of late prehistoric pottery’.
We now know more than the simple fact that prehistoric knappers obtained tool stone at the Hatch quarry.
The sauropods include many of the best known prehistoric animals, such as diplodocus and apatosaurus – the dinosaur formerly known as brontosaurus. Dinosaurs with long necks were like 1950s vacuum cleaners, say scientists
This is the site of a prehistoric fortification, or broch.
There is, as yet, no convincing archaeological evidence for tin exploitation in the west of England in the prehistoric period.
In prehistoric days, maybe, the water gushed out somewhere near the Chott; the charming depression of the "corbeille" is perhaps the work of human hands. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
Most resorts in Manado can make special arrangements with local fishermen to show you the prehistoric nautilus.
The Chillingham herd is believed to be related to prehistoric auroch oxen, which once grazed across northern Europe.
But did the Neolithic arrowhead mean that they had found a prehistoric archer?

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